/lit/ - Literature

>>11540898
I'm from New Zealand which is a state in Australia. Nobody here reads, they're too busy getting laid.

>>11540912
I got laid 3 days ago but I still read

Only the labels of beer to make sure it's above 1.3 standard drinks.

>>11540898
I’m an Aussie and I read but only to compensate for being retarded

The Horne Prize:
>What we’re not seeking or accepting:
>Essays by non-Indigenous writers about the experiences of First Nations Australians
>Essays by cis writers about the experiences of those in the LGBTQI community
I'm a faggot and this makes me want to kill myself. Not out of cuck shame or anything, but because the cynicism of this stupid shit saps all the life out of me. No vigour, no energy... to compete in this leper rat race.

Anyway I'm reading Patrick White's The Twyborn Affair at the moment. First White and I am enjoying it a lot. For some reason I had expected White to be droll, but he is the opposite.

>>11540937
They're literally asking white males to not include any diversity lmao

>>11540954
>Please don't write about minorities if you're not a minority
WHAT THE FUCK CAN US WHITE MALES WRITE NOW?

Not even an SJW, but why do you want to write about womyn, aboriginals, or gays?

>>11540912
Am also from NZ friend, don't despair. Most people are fucking morons though yes.

>>11540937
Eyy I’m also reading Patrick White for the first time. I’m reading The Tree of Man. I was a random purchase from a second-hand book store classics section. Nice prose. Bit of an old schooly sort of narrative but it’s good. Is he very famous in aus?

>>11540964
I don't particularly want to write about them, it's just they are clearly setting out this criteria to increase diversity, but at the same time limiting diversity

>>11540898
I'm Australian and the only thing I've ever read is Mein Kampf

>>11540912
>>11540917
i'm aussie but i never got laid :(

>>11540997
I had a gf for 4 years and had sex every day or two. Now I haven't gotten laid in over 18 months.

>>11540937
wtf is this atrocity

this gives me absolutely no hope for the future of literature

>>11540994
Based and redpilled

>>11540898

I don't think they realize the words are all upside down

I am in Australia and I read

>>11541008
Liar

i am a phd student at sydney university and i work at sapphos secondhand bookstore in glebe

ama

>>11540898
Is he using a spider instead of a mouse?

>>11541008
I’m in Australia and I also read.

>>11541020
You seem like a massive hipster

>>11541020
How much hipster pussy do you get?

>>11541002
>dumping that much sperm into a roastie
boy you were playing with fire

can you imagine if she got pregnant and wanted to have the baby? you'd be fucked.

chastity for life mates. it's the only way to be sure.

>>11541021
Yeah down here they're called spiders, fucking funny to hear yanks call em mouses aye

>>11541029
>can you imagine if she got pregnant and wanted to have the baby? you'd be fucked.
It's called the contraceptive implant. Cum in vagina with no worries. She stopped having periods when she got it but occasionally she'd bleed and I knew she was aborting a fertilised egg

>>11541029
I wish, I always cum inside girls maybe one day I'll get a kid

>>11540980
I wouldn't know how to gauge his fame. He is certainly well-known among anyone who consciously engages with "Australian literature". Probably lots of boomers... a league above the sort that read Tim Winton and Christos Tsiolkas. He's a Nobel Prize winner after all.

>>11541027
nah
>>11541028
a fair bit t b h

>>11541020
Is there virtually any reason for me to go to your store? I'd like to make /lit/-ish friends but most of the people I come across into that sort of stuff are massive faggots

>>11541069
Cool, thanks. Explain boomers in a non-cunty way please?

>>11540898
Oi m8 we read da signs on how to get ta bendigos Morty!

yes I read you cunt. I read sci fi and historical fiction.

>>11540898
you did this thread last week.

>>11542693
Not OP but maybe the Australlians have learned how to read since the last time he posted this thread?

>>11540937
>no essays that incorporate referencing
huh?

I read and play Forza Horizon 3, does that count?

I hate Australia because it seems like they have too much fun over there. Everyone's fucking and surfing and getting skin cancer.

>>11541029
based and redpilled

>>11540937
I don’t understand what the fuss is, if you aren’t a memeber of said community, how can you try to speak for it?

>>11543748
There should be nothing barring someone writing about a community of which they are not a part. I can understand some big prize being all touchy but it’s a rather alienating precedent. I would like to see what hetero have to say about me.

>>11543804
Why not? Speaking for or representing some other cultures is at best patronizing at worst appropriation. I can understand if you write it from an outsider view, but I find what the prize’s description on what can’t be admitted to be fair

>>11543870
>Appropriation

What does /lit/ think of Gerald Murnane? Is he worth the hype? I’ve read a few of his short stories but in general I’m bored by writers that only do short stories except maybe Borges. Should I marathon more Murnane?

AMA lads

>>11542593
>the image
>genre fiction
wew

>>11544202
Based Straffo

>>11540898
Only the ELITE among us read books.

>>11544202

>>11540923
I do this. I refuse to buy anything less than 1.3.

>>11540898
24 milllion people.....does anyone read.
yeah but barely anyone id say

i was getting a haircut 2 days ago.
>what are you up to later?
good question umm gym was yesterday so probably um...some reading
>"what are you reading?" .
....its an old one.....Dostoevsky
quickly change topic

what have i become anons?? do i need to be hiding power levels and etc?

>>11541020
Just read YOUR obituary lad

I KNOW who YOU are, and I WILL liquify your skull

Prepare to get chinned the FUCK out

>>11544202
Big Straff

Does any other nation have a living writer as eloquent and muscular as Reality Check?

>>11542693
No I didn't

>>11544202
Fuck /afl/

>>11540937
>Essays by cis writers about the experiences of those in the LGBTQI community
surely those in the LGB part of that acronym are themselves cis

>>11543870
>sodomy is the initiation rite into an impermeable secret society of irreducible alterity
Agreed.

>>11544570
old mate looking good in this pic, very slim
been skipping the hot chips I reckon

I read elite and muscular writeups of test cricket series

Reading is for those who don't have the mental capacity to appreciate the intellectual goldmine that is test cricket.

I've read the autobiography of Ricky Ponting

>>11541020
lol gay

t. student at broadway notre dame

>>11543748
>you're not a bird, why are you writing a poem about being a bird
Use your brain cunt, its there for a reason.

>>11544692
The greatest 'online relationship' sentence is easily the best thing RC has ever done

>>11545607
>Notre Dame
based
>Sydney campus
cringe

reading an article about steve smith as we speak

>>11543870
>appropriation
what's wrong about it?

I read every article on ESPNcricinfo

>>11540937
Australian arts and culture is riddled with these freakish progressive revisionists

I always preferred cricinfo's earlier work

>>11545615
But birds themselves cannot write poems of their birdness, whereas members of other cultures can.

>>11545622
>Fremantle>Sydney

>>11545631
literally is

Zerogoose, you here m8?

>>11545630
well they can but they're usually not very good so best leave it to the normal people

>>11540937
Fear not my dudes, based Howard to the rescue
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hC5_BJdmjm8

>>11545629
so true

>>11545636
yes mate, going through the prepatch content of WoW as we speak

nathan lyons spin IS poetry in motion.... THATS what im reading

>>11545635

>>11540898
*arranges some pebbles from largest to smallest*

Hehehe nothing personal kid...

Leg-spinners pose problems much like love,
Requiring commitment, the taking of a chance.
Half-way deludes; the bold advance.

Right back, there’s time to watch
Developments, though perhaps too late.
It’s not spectacular, but can conciliate.

Instinctively romantics move towards,
Preventing complexities by their embrace,
Batsman and lover embarked as overlords.

>>11545637
>but they're usually not very good so best leave it to the normal people
All these 'normal people' will create is but a second-rated image of the original loaded with its own biases. Pretending that you care about quality doesn't change this point I wanted to make.

>>11545630
>abbos can write poems
C'mon mate like I said use your brain, keep up.

>>11545655
disgusted by this casual racism

>>11545654
doubt most people want to read gay: a gay book about being gay by a fuckin gay faggot lmao

Question to my australian bros : is Patrick White’s Voss any good ?

Tried Murnane recently - too boring for me.

>>11545660
so true

>>11545635
>freakmantle
cant even cop dece shard

>>11545665
literally just go up to mosman park, one suburb over

>>11545660
That may be true (as if the inverse is in vogue now), but this still doesn't undermine the point of authenticity I wanted to make.

>>11545661
Answer: michael clarkes autobiography was pretty good

>>11545672
"""auto"""

>>11545671
havent actually been interested in the topic at hand at any point I just like posting for the sake of posting

>>11545638
based and redpilled

good book, very well written and some good insights on the subtleties of the game of cricket from a man who clearly understands the game on a deep level

>>11545677
>mfw I realized i am sincerely arguing with Australians all along

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wJLMqDKnac
based and redpilled

>>11545659
so proud of this brave indigenous warrior

whats next?

>>11545689
every bait post you see that ends in lmao has been written by me

Cricket is shit.

>>11545698
suicide

>>11545702
pooicide

>>11545700
not true I wrote this post and I am not you >>11545660
a troll and a liar

>>11545700
no it's not it's me

>>11545700
no, it's me, sean

>>11545702
>>11545706

based and redpilled
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LqY4Z1fTrMc

>>11545707
nice try lmao

>>11545714
powerful content think I might vote for Palmer next election lads

>>11545719
excellent decision brother

>>11545714
powerful content think I might vote for jacqui lambie next election lads

>>11545714
powerful content think I might vote for Hanson-Young next election lads

>>11545721
so true

novelisation when

>>11545733
tomorrow

>>11545714
powerful content think I might vote for Blair Cottrell next election lads

>>11545714
powerful content think I might vote for Bernardi next election lads

>>11545736
>>11545721
>>11545719
>>11545725
thank you for participating in the democratic process lads

who me? ye i read...

damn right I read, I read the state of the pitch and I read the game situation

>>11545761
this is not Tim Paine lads

fuck yeah mate, betoota advocate is sick ay

just pood myself ama

>>11545796
how many mentos did you eat bruv?

>>11545796
what's the report lad

>thread about Australian /lit/ goes to shit in Australian prime time

>>11545802
bloodbath

>>11545812

>>11545661
over here mate ama

>>11545652
This faggot is supposed to be related to a faggot I know. Is he even worth it?

>>11545812
I expect nothingless from the world's finest shitposters.

>>11545655
Their oral tradition is way more complex than our own. Go to a museum for once, you fucking racist dog. It's free to be cultured and aware of our First Nations people.

>>11545849
so so so true

>>11545849
love the abo oral tradition yeah, only a couple of bucks for the old sneed seed and feed

>>11545849
OLOONGAWOONGANOONGABOONGA A GABAGABAGABA FLABBAWABBAJABBANOONGA

>>11545866
Simply epic. May I screencap this for reddit?

>>11545857
Illiterate.

>>11545853
Snarky cunt.

>>11545849
Sucking off various animals is not an oral tradition.

>>11545869
so true

>>11545849
t. abbo

>>11545890
You would know that they have interesting syntax in some of their languages. I remember that some stories are told in building blocks, like "the lake. the lake was warm. the lake was warm with the coming of spring," ad inf.

You're just an unwashed pseud who has never read up on these things. Go into any Australian linguistics department, or even cognitive science, and you'll find that indigenous languages are studied hard. Or, at mine, there are workshops for language conservation.

>>11546175
yeah what a shocker a language that developed separately to the rest of the world's does some interesting things
that doesn't mean that the abos have produced anything of value. I don't blame them for not having done so since Australia's geopgraphy made the organic development of civilisation genuinely impossible but I cannot stand the romanticisation of their highly primitive culture

>>11540898
The only writer who lives in Australia worth reading is Coetzee. And he's not even Australian.

>>11540912
Since when was New Zealand a state in Australia?

nah mate

>>11544202
Plassic Daul Cano.

Yeaaahhh nahhh where's the durries cunt

>>11546447
>romanticisation of their highly primitive culture
Where did I do that? Anyway, you probably think they were entirely hunter-gatherer when they definitely had farms for kangaroo grass and may have invented bread (look up Dark Emu). If you read Henry Reynolds, you'll find that Indigenous people did help the colonisation of Australia. I only know of Kangaroo Island and SA in particular, but they did help many early settlers understand native food, hunting, land, etc. It was nearly impossible to merely bring over farm animals and wheat, at the start.

Regardless, I don't believe in the noble savage, I only mentioned the fact their languages are interesting to linguists. Also, I'm willing to admit they kind of created the barren geography many, many years ago by destroying all the megafauna and recklessly slashing and burning. This is what led to their cultural practices of "respecting land" i.e. understanding balance - however misconstrued that has become to hippies.

They did make genuine contributions to technology. Boomerangs, for example. Unaipon almost made helicopters off of boomerangs (I know Da Vinci had ideas for helicopters too) hence his face on our 50 dollar note.

>>11546571
Quality post.

>>11545714
powerful content think i might vote for Allah next election

*farts*

rise up lights!

>>11547338
good eye might

>>11540912
Morning lad. I don't read much and I'm not especially clever, but I do get laid every now and then. Life is nice.

>>11548248
Nice try pastor.

>>11540937
by 'droll' do you just mean 'dull'?
or do you find White dry and humorless?

>>11541020
I am a bachelor's student at WSU. I realise that you're a PhD student and hence substantially more qualified but can you give me some tips on how to get a job in a bookstore like the one you work at. Just walk-in and ask for the person in charge of hiring?
Thanks

>>11549616
was expecting some arid boomer catalogue of characterless surnames and towns... not vivid radiant alive human prose. like the gulf between tolstoy anticipated and tolstoy experienced

nuke M*lbourne when?

>>11542593
You might enjoy "Byzantium Endures."

>>11540980
No author is famous in Australia.

>>11541029
anti natalists should kill themselves

>>11540964
>Not even an SJW, but
:^)

Does anyone else hate that dumb fucking cunt Peter Carey? Never written a good book in his entire sad fucking life, despite the knob-solving they constantly give him in literary circles for being the one Aussie to write milquetoast middlebrow rubbish instead of playing footy and smashing birds like a normal person in this country. Oscar and Lucinda is the most tired, uninspiring dreck I’ve ever had the misfortune of slogging through, and the fact that The True History of the Kelly Gang is taught as part of school curriculum is an indictment of the highest order on the direction this country is heading. Fuck Peter Carey. If I saw his smug fucking cunt face i’d bash it in with a fucking wrench

>>11549827
now

>>11546470
cringe

>>11546469
It was in a book he read.

>>11540912
>>11540967
Why is the acting NZ PM such a poofta?

>>11540898

I mean I’m australian and I read. In terms of authors we don’t have many good ones (a lot of mediocre to above average ones though, I.e Craig Silvey). However Banjo Pattersons poetry, along with the journals and reports of journalists who accompanied our soldiers to war are quite good, and definitely worth some time if you like folk poetry or some good journalism.

>>11545714
Powerful content I think I might vote for bill shorten next election

>>11551214
scab

>>11540898
Just the one Aussie guy who posts on here.

>>11551214
>bill shorten
Cringe and bluepilled.

>>11552039
>>11552039
Ouch scabs sound painful

>>11549754
>>11541020
Did you leave?

A cool and underrated Australian writer: Barbara Baynton.

I see plenty of people reading when I get the train in Melbourne.

>>11555059
Lol, because it's hipster central. None of you even pay for your fucking Myki unless you go into the station. All fucking freeloaders, I say, from my lofty hills of Ad'laide.

>>11554900
It means strikebreaker. You ever been to a picket, cob?

>>11545719

>>11555439
He's such a fat cunt, stop posting him. Also his memes are reddit-tier.

>>11555447
It's for reentering politics. Interesting to see where political campaigns and general publicity for figures or other entities will go in the future. Yet more cancer.

why are australians so cringe/? reddit the country

>>11555521
We're really the only country that thinks they're laid-back and funny when we're neither. Then again, I've met Irishmen who think the same but wont stop talking about Rick and Morty.

Only Meme Books

>>11555642
>Australian Cucktholic University
Anyway, does this cunt know anything about pedagogy? Our literacy rates have shot up since we've brought in the new curriculum.

>>11555384
It's a joke, union nimrods have no sense of humour though.

bump

>>11555642
BASED

Australians in general don't like to read. Our culture is more experiential and practically-minded, so it's encouraged that we do something rather than read. Generally, Australians read only when they absolutely have to, unless it's a hobby (which is rare).